[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 80 (Wednesday, April 25, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 20794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10220]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy


Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplement to the 1997 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Yuma Training Range Complex

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act as 
implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR 
parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy intends to prepare a 
Supplement to the 1997 Environmental Impact Statement for the Yuma 
Training Range Complex to evaluate the cumulative impacts on the 
Sonoran Pronghorn, an endangered species, of Marine Corps actions when 
added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future 
actions.

ADDRESSES: Questions regarding preparation of the SEIS may be directed 
to: Commander, Southwest Division, Naval Facilities Engineering 
Command, 1220 Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92132-5190 (Attn: Ms. Deb 
Therouix).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Deb Therouix, telephone (619) 532-
3348, fax (619) 522-2648, E-Mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Marine Corps completed an environmental 
impact statement (EIS) in 1997 addressing its military aviation and 
associated training impacts on the Yuma Training Range Complex. This 
complex includes the Barry M. Goldwater Range, AZ, which contains 
habitat for the Sonoran Pronghorn.
    On February 12, 2001, the United States District Court for the 
District of Columbia found that the cumulative impact analysis in the 
1997 Yuma Training Range Complex EIS was deficient in that if failed to 
provide sufficient analysis of cumulative impacts on the Sonoran 
Pronghorn in accordance with 40 CFR 1508.7. The Court remanded the 
matter to the Marine Corps for further consideration of such impacts.
    Accordingly, the Department of the Navy is preparing a Supplement 
to the EIS, in accordance with 40 CFR 1502.9(c), that will evaluate the 
cumulative impacts on the Sonoran pronghorn of Marine Corps actions 
when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future 
actions regardless of what agency or person undertakes such other 
actions.

    Dated: April 18, 2001.
Duncan Holaday,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Facilities).
[FR Doc. 01-10220 Filed 4-24-01; 8:45 am]
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